I. TIMELINE

1900America
1900 is the companion site to the PBS film of the same title.

Female missionaries associated with Oberlin College are among those
killed during the Boxer Rebellion in China.Women
Physicians: 1850s-1970s [Drexel University College of Medicine]
includes the newspaper article, "Boxers Clipped Chickens' Wings to Warn
Christians of Fire."

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones organizes West Virginia
for the great anthracite coal strike of 1902.The Mother Jones
Collection [American Catholic History Center, The Catholic
University Of America] includes the correspondence of Jones and John
Mitchell and a
small collection of photographs.

Forty Irish orphans from New York are adopted by Mexican families in
Arizona.
Listen to the Talking History interview with Linda Gordon
(Oct. 8, 2001), author of The
Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Harvard University Press, 1999).

Mary McLeod Bethune founds the Daytona Normal and
Industrial School for
Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman College.
The Mary
McLeod Bethune, Educator site offers a history of Bethune-Cookman
College, an interview with Bethune, photographs, and lesson plans.

1905
Nampeyo demonstrates pottery-making at the Grand Canyon Hopi House. A Nampeyo
Showcase [Arizona State Museum] includes images and descriptions of 19
pottery vessels, a
timeline, and a section on ancestral Hopi pottery.

1907Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Equality League of
Self-Supporting
Women.
Terry Gross interviews Ellen
Dubois, author of Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of
Woman Suffrage, on Fresh Air [11 March
1998].

1908
Lewis Hine Photographs for the National Child Labor Committee, 1908 -
1912.
The National Archives' ARC database
includes 483 of Hine's photographs.Search
hints are available.

1909
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) organizes strike by
20,000 New York City shirtwaist makers.Heaven Will
Protect the Working Girl [American Social History Project, Center for
Media and Learning] is the companion site to a film that tells the story
of two fictional New York City immigrant teenagers who worked in the
garment industry in the first decade of the twentieth century. The site
includes text (e.g., lyrics for the song, "Heaven Will Protect the Working
Girl"), images, and audio from an oral history interview.

Kheel
Center Labor Photos database includes images of the strike, as well as
images of ILGWU activities covering most of the twentieth
century. Access note: Researchers have to set up a free account
before
searching the database.

Manuscripts: Diaries & Letters

Many academic libraries offer access to the commercial digital
collection, North American Women's Letters & Diaries. This
collection offers numerous search options, including the ability
to
search by "year written." See a brief tutorial on searching this collection by
time
period.

Delia
Kingsley [online]. In Women Working, 1800-1930. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Library, 2005.
Kingsley's diary from 1906 to 1910 describes her activities as a
Massachusetts school teacher, as well as her romantic interests,
travels, and daily life.

The National Digital
Newspaper Program
will create a digital collection of historically significant
newspapers from
all states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922.
The pilot project will involve the digitization of newspapers from six
states covering the years 1900 to 1910.

Quilts

The database America: History & Life offers a simple option
for limiting a search for articles and other sources to a specific time
period. If you are searching for articles that cover the decade from 1900
to 1910, enter 1900d in the "Time Period" row of the search screen.
See Searching
America: History & Life by Time Period for an example using another
time period.